| • | Rennet. See 3d Reed. |
| • | of Read |
| • | To advise; to counsel. |
| • | To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle. |
| • | To tell; to declare; to recite. |
| • | To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book. |
| • | Hence, to know fully; to comprehend. |
| • | To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation. |
| • | To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law. |
| • | To give advice or counsel. |
| • | To tell; to declare. |
| • | To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document. |
| • | To study by reading; as, he read for the bar. |
| • | To learn by reading. |
| • | To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts. |
| • | To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly. |
| • | Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede. |
| • | Reading. |
| • | imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i. |
| • | Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned. |
